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...July 29: 10 a.m. Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event - BMC Chamber Music 2:30 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Pierre Monteux - Beethoven: Symphomy No.2 - Purcell: Dido's Lament (Gray-Masse) - Weber: "Ocean Thou Mighty Monster" (Gray-Masse) - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben...
From a man who saw Brahms plain and studied under César Franck came a dirge for modern music. Asked by a London newsman which 20th century composers seemed likely to stand the test of time. Paris-born Maestro Pierre Monteux, 86, flatly replied: ''I don't see any, except perhaps Stravinsky." In a tart catalogue of inadequacies, the peppery new conductor of the London Symphony went on: "Mahler, he won't live; he's an imitator. Prokofiev, I don't think so. Shostakovich, no. Hindemith, no inspiration. Bartok: I give...
Evidently the whims of interpreters have been mirrored in the printed scores, and Toscanini's lifelong struggle for accurate texts, now supported by Stravinsky, Walter, Serafin, Monteux, Gui and many others, will be much advanced not only by your article but by the response of your readers...
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. I & 8 (the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Pierre Monteux; RCA Victor). The Pierre Monteux of 86 has a natural affinity for the Beethoven...
...wood (Lenox, Mass), in the 1961 Berkshire Festival from July 5 through August 20. At the Festival 15 concerts by the Full orchestra will be given, plus six chamber orchestra concerts of music by Bach and Mozart, seven chamber music recitals, and two guests will be Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Monteux, Eugene Ormandy, Arthur Fiedler, and Richard Burgin...